Hi all. I have a perfectly working rooted firetv and xbmc, however every now and then the airplay service stops and the youtube push to tv also disappears.
To make it work again, I have to reboot the firetv or I have to start the airplay app stop the service and restart it. Is there a bug or fix I can look at? Confused.
any one faced this issue? I've made the firetv for my dad and will be leaving tomorrow night.
I'll start by saying I've had my Fire TV since April and never had a single problem until about a week ago I started having problems when using Plex and Netflix. Anything I tried to play on any settings would play for about 20 seconds and then stop. I ruled out any problem with my network so it had to be the Fire TV itself which updated to the latest version a few days prior to the problems starting. I talked to Amazon support for a few hours and after all the troubleshooting they had me do they sent me a new Fire TV which got here today but it automatically updated during setup and I'm having the same exact problems I was having with the other one. Amazon instant videos won't load at all, Netflix/Plex play for 20 seconds perfectly fine then just stop, and Sling TV plays for about a second then buffers.
I'm here hoping somebody knows how or can figure out a way to downgrade because this is beyond frustrating.
My Fire TV is on Software Version 51.1.4.3_user_514020320
I put this on the Kodi Genesis forum but have had no luck so thought I would see if anyone here has come across this.
Ok guys, have a fire TV running genesis 5 and kodi 14.1 with no problems at all. Decided yesterday I would buy a fire TV stick. Installed kodi 15.1 on to it and genesis 5. Went to a tv show I watch and came up no streams available. Went to the exact same tv show on my fire TV and instantly all links came up! They are both in the same room connected to the same router.
I decided I would try downgrading the fire stick to kodi 14.1 so I had the exact same setup as the fire TV box. Still no streams available! How can this be happening? It's doing my head in! Any help guys would be greatly appreciated. By the way I have a very strong wifi signal on my stick.
Thanks
Darren
I have a similar problem! Except it's with IceFilms. When clicking on a movie, all I see are three dots (one up folder). I'll keep an eye on this thread. I hope you get it working!
I just got my fourth fire stick yesterday and have the same exact problem. All the other sticks work great, I don't know what they have done. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling with no luck.
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nitrobanshee said:
I just got my fourth fire stick yesterday and have the same exact problem. All the other sticks work great, I don't know what they have done. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling with no luck.
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I think I know what the problem is, try changing the view to say a list or poster or go through the view types until the list appears properly.
I have tried changing the views with no luck. It has to be down to the stick. What I have noticed is the stick comes up with "no stream available" in Genesis but it still says working for another 15-20 seconds. I know there are streams available because they come up on my fire TV for this particular TV show. It seems to be timing out or something like that, like it is not finding the streams quick enough then just shows "no stream available". May something to do with speed or memory of the fire stick?
DD33 said:
I have tried changing the views with no luck. It has to be down to the stick. What I have noticed is the stick comes up with "no stream available" in Genesis but it still says working for another 15-20 seconds. I know there are streams available because they come up on my fire TV for this particular TV show. It seems to be timing out or something like that, like it is not finding the streams quick enough then just shows "no stream available". May something to do with speed or memory of the fire stick?
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I uninstalled everything and hooked it to my other TV using the power cord that came with it. Every thing is great now, I put it on the other TV that had USB for power and it still works on that TV. So I'm not shure if you used the power cable that cane with it or not but use it to program it.
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I uninstalled everything and hooked it to my other TV using the power cord that came with it. Every thing is great now, I put it on the other TV that had USB for power and it still works on that TV. So I'm not shure if you used the power cable that cane with it or not but use it to program it.
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Do you mean delete kodi from the fire stick then use the power cable to the stick and then reinstall kodi & genesis?
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Do you mean delete kodi from the fire stick then use the power cable to the stick and then reinstall kodi & genesis?
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I have done this myself, even factory reset the Fire TV Stick and it hasn't worked. So don't be disheartened if this doesn't work! You're not the only one.
I had this same problem and solved it here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-tv/help/kodi-fire-stick-fewer-steams-kodi-t3370586
When I try to cast from youtube or Netflix, my livingroom aftv does not show up anymore. My bedroom aftv, fire stick and nexus player appear. The only difference between those devices is my livingroom is a wired connection. But it was working fine until it disappeared yesterday. I've tried rebooting router, aftv, my phone but it's not appearing anymore. Any ideas how to fix or theories as to why it stopped working?
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When I try to cast from youtube or Netflix, my livingroom aftv does not show up anymore. My bedroom aftv, fire stick and nexus player appear. The only difference between those devices is my livingroom is a wired connection. But it was working fine until it disappeared yesterday. I've tried rebooting router, aftv, my phone but it's not appearing anymore. Any ideas how to fix or theories as to why it stopped working?
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I had this issue and restarted my iPhone and it showed up again. Really odd since my phone called cast to my TV, but couldn't even see my Fire TV. Reboot fixed it.
I have bought a firestick in UK some time ago, recently I upgraded to a Mecool device so I brought the old stick to my mom in Italy.
The stick connect but it is not possible to use the amazon movies while there (it shows some sort of geographic error message). Fine.
Changing the user from mine to my mom (who has prime in Italy) doesn't help.
I was wondering if I could sideload the prime video apk and use that instead, if that would allow me to stream the movies from Italy.
did anybody try?
I have sideloaded Prime Video for Android TV (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.amazon.amazonvideo.livingroom) in Finland and it works ok. The Amazon Video app preinstalled in the stick doesn't work here either.
Alternative for sideloading would be to use Prime Video app from phone and cast the video to the stick.
yea
that's what i do normally, i cast from phone..but eats the battery..